Red Pen - In-Depth Photographic Campus Education

Author: Zeng Hongyan
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Over the past thirty years, the author has corrected countless homework and exam papers. Looking back, her heart began to race: In the years she had rushed through, had she ever caused unintended harm to her students due to momentary negligence? She then reflected on whether her heart was fair when she used a red pen to leave judgment after judgment for the children, and whether her standards of judgment were correct. She couldn’t bear to think any further. The author firmly believed she had caused harm and knew that the standards of judgment she had once used were absurd. What did this mean? She was very clear in her heart: It meant that the mistakes she had made could not be corrected, even if she confessed, it would be useless. Because a child’s life could not be restarted, the traces she had left behind in their growth years could not be erased. In that restless reflection, one night, she had a dream where she was a red pen, skillfully flipping and turning on open exercise books. Suddenly, she woke up. Looking at the night outside the window, she couldn’t fall back asleep. Recalling her dream, she suddenly realized: After all, aren’t we teachers just a series of "red pens"? And what kind of traces have these "red pens" left behind in the years of children’s growth?